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...Columbia--With Richie Horner healthy and Paul Connors set to start, but whether Connors can fit in well after just a few days of practice is a big guestion. Harvard has its full forces ready. Both teams have new offensive backfield, a wealth of rookies, and untested kicking games. Look for Restic to aim his running game at the inexperienced Columbia linebackers. If the backers play hard against the run, Restic says he'll have Burke St. John throw play-action passes to mess up the Lion defense. In the end, Baker Field is ugly and Harvard will take...
Brown at Yale--The best game of the weekend, with two serious title contenders slugging it out. Both teams lost talented quarterbacks--Brown lost Mark Whipple and Yale lost Pat O'Brien. Brown has a proven offensive backfield except for the quarterback; Yale does not. Brown also holds a defensive edge with just some secondary vacancies to fill. But for the sake of variety, Yale in an upset...
...wasn't how badly Harvard played that made this game disturbing-- it was how they played badly. Harvard has retained all of last year's bad habits. It controlled the ball fairly well until the strikers reached the Lion's penalty area and defended effectively until sloppiness overcame the back lines in front of the Harvard goal...
...need someone to take it on himself to shoot," Coach George Ford understated after the game. "It's the kind of thing where if someone starts shooting it can become contagious. We have to learn to take what's being offered to us, rather than looking toward the next path...
...certainly did not answer all the questions--Columbia's ineptness more than Harvard's perfection was responsible for the win-- but the game did prove that the Crimson certainly has the potential for some good football this year...